McAlister v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Lewis v. Lewis (2011), Blake v. Blake (1988)
47 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 144 N.J. Super. 200 - D'Onofrio v. D'Onofrio · 133 W. Va. 501 - Pugh v. Pugh · Koon v. Koon · Duncan v. Duncan · In Re Deford
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although our scope of review allows us to find the facts in accordance with our view of the preponderance of the evidence, we give broad discretion to the family court judge who has observed the witnesses and is in a better position to judge their demeanor and veracity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Lewis
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.